Kevan Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevan Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pandemic Politics in Iran
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and its reimposition of US sanctions put the Iranian economy back into a stranglehold and discredited the reformists led by President Hassan Rouhani who had secured the deal. With the country already reeling from the US sanctions, the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a heavy blow. As political factions mobilize for the 2021 elections, the situation is more unpredictabl…
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question ha…
Zeinab Abul-Magd. Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution , Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to we…
Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation
Iran's Uncertain Course After the Deal
The latest political realignment in the Islamic Republic resulted in détente with the West even as regional upheaval has drawn Tehran into overextended military interventions. While Iran's future is uncertain, it is definitely not a hegemon in the making
A hidden counter-movement? Precarity, politics, and social protection before and beyond the neoliberal era
The Rise of the Subcontractor State: Politics of Pseudo-Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Since 2009, analyses of Iran have stressed the centralizing takeover of the country's economy by a single state institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. At the same time, however, Iran's factionalized political elite uniformly advocate for rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises. Underneath this puzzling contradiction is a complex shift of economic ownership away from the state toward a variety of parastatal organizations inclu…
The Brokered Exuberance of the Middle Class: An Ethnographic Analysis of Iran's 2009 Green Movement
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, this article moves from a microscopic to a wide-angle view to explain the dynamics of the 2009 post-election Green movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: how it manifested, why it weakened, and who participated. After mapping out the protest wave, I make three main arguments. First, pre-electoral campaigns created spaces for interaction rituals of "brokered exuberance" among particip…
Lineages of the Iranian Welfare State: Dual Institutionalism and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This article examines the relationship between welfare and state governance in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. It argues that the contemporary set of social welfare organizations in Iran arose as a corollary to post-revolutionary state formation, particularly during the 1980–8 war with Iraq. The Revolution itself resulted in a process of ‘dual institutionalization’ where new revolutionary organizations appeared in tandem with the inherited bureau…
The Rise of the Subcontractor State: Politics of Pseudo-Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Since 2009, analyses of Iran have stressed the centralizing takeover of the country's economy by a single state institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. At the same time, however, Iran's factionalized political elite uniformly advocate for rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises. Underneath this puzzling contradiction is a complex shift of economic ownership away from the state toward a variety of parastatal organizations inclu…
A hidden counter-movement? Precarity, politics, and social protection before and beyond the neoliberal era
The Brokered Exuberance of the Middle Class: An Ethnographic Analysis of Iran's 2009 Green Movement
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, this article moves from a microscopic to a wide-angle view to explain the dynamics of the 2009 post-election Green movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: how it manifested, why it weakened, and who participated. After mapping out the protest wave, I make three main arguments. First, pre-electoral campaigns created spaces for interaction rituals of "brokered exuberance" among particip…
Lineages of the Iranian Welfare State: Dual Institutionalism and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This article examines the relationship between welfare and state governance in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. It argues that the contemporary set of social welfare organizations in Iran arose as a corollary to post-revolutionary state formation, particularly during the 1980–8 war with Iraq. The Revolution itself resulted in a process of ‘dual institutionalization’ where new revolutionary organizations appeared in tandem with the inherited bureau…
Lineages of the Iranian Welfare State: Dual Institutionalism and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This article examines the relationship between welfare and state governance in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. It argues that the contemporary set of social welfare organizations in Iran arose as a corollary to post-revolutionary state formation, particularly during the 1980–8 war with Iraq. The Revolution itself resulted in a process of ‘dual institutionalization’ where new revolutionary organizations appeared in tandem with the inherited bureau…
The Brokered Exuberance of the Middle Class: An Ethnographic Analysis of Iran's 2009 Green Movement
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, this article moves from a microscopic to a wide-angle view to explain the dynamics of the 2009 post-election Green movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: how it manifested, why it weakened, and who participated. After mapping out the protest wave, I make three main arguments. First, pre-electoral campaigns created spaces for interaction rituals of "brokered exuberance" among particip…
The Rise of the Subcontractor State: Politics of Pseudo-Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Since 2009, analyses of Iran have stressed the centralizing takeover of the country's economy by a single state institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. At the same time, however, Iran's factionalized political elite uniformly advocate for rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises. Underneath this puzzling contradiction is a complex shift of economic ownership away from the state toward a variety of parastatal organizations inclu…
Iran's Uncertain Course After the Deal
The latest political realignment in the Islamic Republic resulted in détente with the West even as regional upheaval has drawn Tehran into overextended military interventions. While Iran's future is uncertain, it is definitely not a hegemon in the making
A hidden counter-movement? Precarity, politics, and social protection before and beyond the neoliberal era
Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution , Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to we…
Zeinab Abul-Magd. Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question ha…
Pandemic Politics in Iran
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and its reimposition of US sanctions put the Iranian economy back into a stranglehold and discredited the reformists led by President Hassan Rouhani who had secured the deal. With the country already reeling from the US sanctions, the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a heavy blow. As political factions mobilize for the 2021 elections, the situation is more unpredictabl…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Islamic republic (3 works)